phosphide
noun
phosphide is a noun meaning “Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphide is phosphides.
What does phosphide mean?
noun
- 1
Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce phosphide?
- US
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-phosphide.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-phosphide.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phosphide
- phosphides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphide?
Phosphide appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Phosphide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense binary compound of phosphorus:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does phosphide come from?
From phospho- + -ide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).